Raoul Dufy Quotes

#1. France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

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#2. What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

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#3. American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

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#4. I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

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#5. When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

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#6. The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

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#7. Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

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#8. My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

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#9. One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

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#10. Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones ... it will always stay blue.

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